‘I opened up like a giant elevator’ : the seven sly, savage stages of a £100,000 romance scam

Last year, romance fraud rose 52% for over-55s in the UK. Victims often feel they’ve made a terrible mistake and are at fault – but really, they’ve been expertly groomed by criminals In total, over two and a half years, Elizabeth gave £100,000 to “Sam”, the “man” she met online, who she thought (…)